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Short pitch to the MIPIM Asia Awards jury.

Throughout human history, the waterfront was where news from distant places was shared, where locals met foreigners, and where sailors sought entertainment. These exchanges made waterfronts the lifeblood of cities, representing our first strides towards globalization. Since 1863, the Port of Saigon was essential to Vietnam’s fluid identity as a French colony, an independent nation, and a contem...

As one of Asia’s most dynamic megacities, Shanghai is actively encouraging innovative solutions to provide food for the growing region. Sunqiao illustrates that, like the city’s soaring skyscrapers, its farms are also going vertical. After 20 years of conventional agricultural production on the site, Shanghai is expanding the role of Sunqiao in its foodshed. The new plan for the district focuse...

For thousands of years, long before Shanghai evolved into a global metropolis, Suzhou Creek dominated the landscape. Centuries of human manipulation sought to contain the creek, transforming it from a key feature of the watershed into a highly engineered canal. For generations of Shanghainese it is remembered as a polluted wasteland. With funding from the Asian Development Bank, the waterway is...

Zhangjiabang is the first of Shanghai’s eight planned “green wedges”, and will become the city’s largest public park. A catalyst for ecological and urban renewal, the park creates an unprecedented amount of wetland and woodland habitat that redefines the natural environment in a city whose residents have increasingly fewer opportunities to experience nature. Focusing on the existing canal and i...